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Extraterrestrial Life Breakthrough!

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 6:41 pm
by Doug
Have They Made Breakthrough In Search For Extraterrestrial Life?


NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery; Science Journal Has Embargoed Details Until 2 p.m. EST On Dec. 2 WASHINGTON --

NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.

Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.
The news conference will be held at the NASA Headquarters auditorium at 300 E St. SW, in Washington.

It will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency's website at http://www.nasa.gov.

For NASA TV streaming video and downlink information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

See the press release here.

Re: Extraterrestrial Life Breakthrough!

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 7:58 pm
by Dardedar
Are they finally going to come clean about Roswell? ...

Re: Extraterrestrial Life Breakthrough!

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 10:45 pm
by kwlyon
Darrel wrote:Are they finally going to come clean about Roswell? ...
I'm being deported...but to tell the truth, I am rather happy about it....

Re: Extraterrestrial Life Breakthrough!

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 11:04 pm
by Doug
kwlyon wrote:I'm being deported....
You mean "abducted"? "Teleported"? If you're being deported, where are they sending you?

Re: Extraterrestrial Life Breakthrough!

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 8:21 am
by kwlyon
Doug wrote: If you're being deported, where are they sending you?
Home....To Transylvania, on the planet of Transexual.

Re: Extraterrestrial Life Breakthrough!

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 3:14 pm
by Betsy
wait.....what?

Re: Extraterrestrial Life Breakthrough!

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 3:58 pm
by Doug
DOUG
Well, the "breakthrough" was that a bacterium can exist with arsenic as its diet.
Scientists said Thursday that they had trained a bacterium to eat and grow on a diet of arsenic, in place of phosphorus — one of six elements considered essential for life — opening up the possibility that organisms could exist elsewhere in the universe or even here on Earth using biochemical powers we have not yet dared to dream about.
See here.

And here I thought E.T. was coming!

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"Say, would you happen to have any arsenic handy? I ran out."

Re: Extraterrestrial Life Breakthrough!

Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 12:04 am
by Savonarola
Doug wrote:Have They Made Breakthrough In Search For Extraterrestrial Life?
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Re: Extraterrestrial Life Breakthrough!

Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 12:38 am
by Dardedar
Well, I thought National Geographic did a pretty good job with this one:

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I know a rather fundie church that always has National Geographic in their waiting room. They didn't have this issue (I looked).